Scotch fir (Pinus silvestris), often three feet in diameter, which must have grown on the margin of the peat-mosses, and have frequently fallen into them. This tree is not now, nor has ever been in historical times, a native of the Danish islands, and... The London Quarterly Review - Seite 33herausgegeben von - 1874Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| sir Charles Lyell (bart.) - 1863 - 578 Seiten
...the margin of the peat-mosses, and have frequently fallen into them. This tree is not now, nor has ever been in historical times, a native of the Danish...from below a buried trunk of one of these pines. It appear s clear that the same Scotch fir was after'wards supplanted by the sessile variety of the common... | |
| John Duns - 1863 - 650 Seiten
...the margin of the peat mosses, and have frequently fallen into them. This tree is not now, nor has ever been in historical times, a native of the Danish...instrument from below a buried trunk of one of these pines " (p. 9). What authority has Sir Charles for the statement that this pine had perished before the historical... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1863 - 736 Seiten
...the margin of the peat-mosses, and have frequently fallen into them. This tree is not now, nor has ever been in historical times, a native of the Danish...human period, for Steenstrup has taken out with his * Tliis opinion of the relative antiquity of stone, brass, and iron, is of conrw much older than the... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray, George Walter Prothero - 1863 - 626 Seiten
...the margin of the peat-mosses, and have frequently fallen into them. This tree is not now, nor has ever been in historical times, a native of the Danish...was evidently indigenous in the human period, for Stcenstrup has taken ont with bis * This opinion of the relative antiquity of stone, brass, and iron,... | |
| Anonymous - 1863 - 602 Seiten
...margin of the peat-mosses, and have frequently fallen into them. This tree is not now, nor has over been in historical times, a native of the Danish Islands,...has not thriven ; yet it was evidently indigenous in tho human period, for Steenstrup has taken out with his * This opinion of the relative antiquity of... | |
| 1863 - 530 Seiten
...the margin of the peat mosses, and have frequently fallen into them. This tree is not now, nor has ever been in historical times, a native of the Danish...islands, and when introduced there has not thriven." It further appears to have been supplanted by the sessile variety of the common oak, which has been... | |
| Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art - 1863 - 608 Seiten
...enquiry, and the determination of that point alone will solve the question. Professor Steenstrup took with his own hands a flint instrument from below a buried trunk of a pine tree, in a peat bed in Denmark. These peat deposits vary in depth from ten to thirty feet :... | |
| Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art - 1863 - 602 Seiten
...enquiry, and the determination of that point alone will solve the question. Professor Steenstrup took with his own hands a flint instrument from below a buried trunk of a pine tree, in a peat bed in Denmark. These peat deposits vary in depth from ten to thirty feet: the... | |
| Friedrich Max Müller - 1864 - 652 Seiten
...the margin of the peat-mosses, and have frequently fallen into them. This tree is not now, nor has ever been in historical times, a native of the Danish...taken out with his own hands a flint instrument from beloAv a buried trunk of one of these pines. It appears clear that the same Scotch fir was afterwards... | |
| James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas - 1864 - 626 Seiten
...Sir CHABI.KS LYEIL, FRS Third Edition. 1863. 'London ; Murray. them. This tree is not now, nor has ever been in historical times, a native of the Danish...taken out with his own hands a flint instrument from helow a buried trunk of one of these pines. It appears clear that the same Scotch fir was afterwards... | |
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